lacrima

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Noun

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lacrima (plural lacrimas)

  1. tear (from the eye, usually due to crying)

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈla.kri.ma/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -akrima
  • Hyphenation: là‧cri‧ma

Etymology 1

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From Latin lacrima.

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Noun

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lacrima f (plural lacrime)

  1. tear (drop of fluid secreted from the eyes)
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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lacrima

  1. inflection of lacrimare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

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  • lacrima in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Latin

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Latin Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia la

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Etymology

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From Old Latin dacrima, dacruma, from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru-, from earlier compound *dr̥ḱ-h₂eḱru- (eye bitter).

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Noun

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lacrima f (genitive lacrimae); first declension

  1. (literally) a tear (drop of liquid from crying)
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.314:
      “[...] Per ego hās lacrimās dextramque tuam tē [...].”
      “I [who] through these tears and [by] your own right hand”
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti :
      'sistite vos lacrimas, ipsa medebor' ait.
      'Hold back your tears,' she said. 'I will heal him myself.'
  2. (transferred sense) a tear or gumdrop exuding from plants
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Inflection

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lacrima lacrimae
Genitive lacrimae lacrimārum
Dative lacrimae lacrimīs
Accusative lacrimam lacrimās
Ablative lacrimā lacrimīs
Vocative lacrima lacrimae

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • lacrima”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lacrima”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lacrima in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • lacrima in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to burst into a flood of tears: lacrimas, vim lacrimarum effundere, profundere
    • (ambiguous) to be bathed in tears: in lacrimas effundi or lacrimis perfundi
    • with tears in one's eyes: lacrimis obortis
    • with many tears: multis cum lacrimis
    • to be unable to speak for emotion: prae lacrimis loqui non posse
    • hence these tears; there's the rub: hinc illae lacrimae (proverb.) (Ter. And. 1. 1. 99; Cael. 25. 61)
    • crocodiles' tears: lacrimae simulatae
    • (ambiguous) to burst into a flood of tears: lacrimas, vim lacrimarum effundere, profundere
    • (ambiguous) to be bathed in tears: in lacrimas effundi or lacrimis perfundi
    • (ambiguous) to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: lacrimas tenere non posse
    • (ambiguous) to move to tears: lacrimas or fletum alicui movere
    • (ambiguous) to find relief in tears: dolorem in lacrimas effundere

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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lacrima f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of lacrimă

Spanish

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Verb

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lacrima

  1. inflection of lacrimar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative